Jane Eyre Vocab 1-10

antipathy

having a strong dislike

bilious

bad tempered

borne

taken along

cavilers

to criticize, object

diffidence

shyness, insecurity

impudence

boldness, rudeness, nerve

lineaments

facial features

moreen

a heavy wollen cloth

predominated

controlled

subjoined

to add to the ends

sweetmeats

candy; candied fruit

thence

from there

torpid

inactive, sluggish

tottered

stumbled, faltered

vignettes

small designs on pages of a book

visage

an appearance, face

acrid

biting, bitter, harsh

artifice

to scheme, trick

captious

critical; fault-finding

disposed

likely to

divers

various

duplicity

deception

heterogeneous

coming from inside

ignominy

humiliation; disgrace

opprobrium

disgrace, shame

permptorily

with finality

precocious

developed early

preternatural

abnormal, unusual

propensities

talents, abilities

retrospective

thinking of past times

sanguine

cheerful, hopeful

tumult

disorder, turmoil, commotion

turbid

cloudy, murky

uncongenial

not melted or thawed

vassalage

allegiance; dependence

quelled

overcame, stopped

virulent

lethal poisonous; hateful

bunglingly

inefficiently

convolvuli

a type of funnel-shapped flower

curacy

the office of a minister (curate)

emulation

an ambitious rivalry

enounced

declared

interposed

introduced

propensities

abilities

typhus

an infectious disease

audacious

shameless

contrived

created, invented

execrations

things cursed or detested

fain

willing, eager

habituated

customary, routine

parterre

an arrangement of flower beds

polroon

a coward

recompsense

a reward, compensation

ruth

compassion

tenantry

inhibitors, occupants

usurious

lending money at high interest rate

benignant

showing a good feeling

buxom

plump, healthy

cessation

ending

conning

studying; examining

deal

wood - usually pine or fir

draught

a swallow, drink

frieze

a thick wool cloth

hardihood

boldness

inanition

overcame, stopped

indefatigable

tireless, constant

mullioned

vertical

pelisses

a long robe

pervading

filling

animadversions

criticisms

assiduity

carefulness, diligence

chastiser

a punisher; one who disciplines

cumbrous

heavy, burdensome

expostulations

protestations

forbearance

restraint

impalpable

imaginary

meed

a reward

prerogatives

privileges

seraph

highest rank of angels

slatternly

not neat, untidy

chidden

blamed, scolded

chilblains

a condition that affects that skin, similar to frostbite

effluence

an outpour

evince

to show

excrescence

unwanted growth

evince

to show

excrescene

unwanted growth

exigency

urgency

hebdomadal

weekly

knell

a solemn bell toll

moiety

half

obtrusive

noticeable

obviating

preventing

palsy

muscle paralysis

pathos

feeling sympathy, pity

penurios

stingy

perfidious

treacherous

pious

sacred, holy

privation

deprivation

Rubicon

the point of no return